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Friday, October 09, 2009

Dinner Against Deportations

The Stop Deportation network is holding a Dinner against Deportations in Waterloo on October 20th promising 'Delicious food and updates from community campaigns against deportations'. They say:

'Come to socialise & strategise. Come to meet groups and individuals campaigning against the Home Office's latest move to deport as many people as possible, share information and make useful links. Mass deportations are posing a new threat to communities in the UK. At least six mass deportation flights between 27 August and 22 September have deported people to Nigeria, DR Congo, Jamaica, Cameroon, Afghanistan, Iraqi Kurdistan. To protect ourselves against these attacks on our communities we need to be united, build connections, share information and support each other'.

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